For me, It’s genuinely exciting that what did Buddha discovered 25 centuries ago continues to inspire hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

As a religion or belief system, Buddhism has evolved, taking in delvers forms within different cultures. And as a philosophy, its relevance is undiminished by time. 

The fact that it’s still on the rise shows it has a potent way to navigate our modern times, past and from the ancient world that the Buddha inhabited. 

Most of what we know about the Buddha is based on an oral accounts that were written down a few centuries after his death. Letterless, he was born sometime between the sixth and the fifth centuries BC. What’s now a sudden ab*. We are told he was a prince, Siddhārtha Gautama, good looking, skilled in weaponry and prophesied to achieve great things. But his father, the king, was worried, because it was predicted his son would do one of two things, stayed in the king’s palace and become an emperor or leave home and become a great religious leader.